I learn several great truths; as that it is impossible to see into the ways of futurity, that punishment always attends the villain, that love is the fond soother of the human breast.
Oliver GoldsmithTo what fortuitous occurrence do we not owe every pleasure and convenience of our lives.
Oliver GoldsmithIll fares the land, to hastening ills a prey, Where wealth accumulates, and men decay.
Oliver GoldsmithWhatever mitigates the woes, or increases the happiness of others, is a just criterion of goodness; and whatever injures society at large, or any individual in it, is a criterion of iniquity.
Oliver Goldsmith